Since last year, Nigeria has been battling dollar shortage caused by the sharp drop in oil revenues .

This weakened the Naira on the black market, where it trades far lower than the official interbank rate of 305 naira to the dollar.

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The naira, which had weakened to 520 to the dollar on the black market, firmed to a more than three-months high of 460 on Friday, after several interventions by the central bank on the official market.

Central bank spokesman Isaac Okoroafor said the central bank would ensure a steady supply of foreign exchange to the market. Its efforts, he said, were starting to narrow the black market rate.

The central bank has been under pressure from the government to narrow the gap between the official and black market rates, has effectively devalued the naira for consumers, offering to sell them dollars at about half the premium the black market charges.

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